Authors: Nidal Mugrabi and Mayan Luber
CAIRO/JERUSALEM (Reuters) – A senior Hamas official stated on Sunday the Islamist group has not withdrawn from ceasefire talks with Israel following this weekend’s lethal assault in Gaza, which Israel stated focused the group. navy chief Mohammed Deif.
However Izzat Reshik, a member of Hamas’s political workplace, accused Israel of intensifying assaults on the enclave in an try to undermine efforts by Arab mediators and the USA to succeed in a ceasefire.
An assault in Gaza’s Khan Younis district on Saturday killed not less than 90 Palestinians, in keeping with native well being authorities, throwing ceasefire talks into query.
There have been more and more promising indicators in latest days {that a} deal might be reached to cease the preventing and return the hostages in Gaza.
Two Egyptian safety sources concerned in ceasefire talks in Doha and Cairo stated on Saturday that talks had stalled after three days of intense talks.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is predicted to convene his shut circle of ministers in a while Sunday to debate the talks.
The Israeli navy stated on Sunday that an assault on Deif on Saturday killed Hamas Khan Younis brigade commander Rafael Salama, however didn’t affirm Deif’s destiny.
“The assault by Khan Younis was the results of surgical intelligence,” the pinnacle of Shin Wager’s inner safety service stated in a video launched in Rafah. He stated 25 Kazakhs have been concerned within the lethal assault in southern Israel on October 7 that sparked the warfare. Mas members have been killed prior to now week.
A senior Hamas official on Saturday denied Deif had been killed, and the group stated Israel’s claims have been supposed to justify the assault.
On Sunday, Israeli forces continued aerial and floor shelling in areas of the coastal enclave, house to 2.3 million folks, most of whom have been displaced by the warfare.
Hamas media and well being officers stated an assault on a U.N.-run faculty in Nuserat camp, one in all eight long-standing camps within the Gaza Strip, killed 15 Palestinians and injured dozens extra .
The Israeli navy stated the positioning was used as a base for Hamas militants to assault Israeli forces and stated it had taken quite a lot of measures to restrict the chance of harming civilians, together with the usage of precision munitions and intelligence.
Residents stated two missiles focused the higher flooring of the college, not removed from the camp’s native market, which is often crowded with buyers and the place displaced households have taken shelter close by.
Early Sunday, Israeli air strikes on 4 homes in Gaza Metropolis killed not less than 16 Palestinians and injured dozens extra, medics stated.
Gaza’s Well being Ministry acknowledged that since October 7, Israel’s navy offensive has killed not less than 38,584 Palestinians and injured one other 88,881.
The report added that 141 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli navy strikes within the Gaza Strip over the previous day, the very best demise toll in a single day in weeks.
Gaza’s well being ministry doesn’t distinguish between combatants and non-combatants, however officers say many of the lifeless all through the warfare have been civilians.
Israel misplaced 326 troopers in Gaza and stated not less than a 3rd of the lifeless Palestinians have been fighters.
The warfare broke out after a Hamas-led assault in Israel on October 7 killed 1,200 folks, principally civilians, and took about 250 folks hostage in Gaza, in keeping with Israeli authorities.
